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conceive English

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conceive

If you can conceive of a certain situation, you can imagine it. I just can't conceive of life without you. Can you conceive what life would have been like in that time? Someone conceives of an idea when they think of the idea for the first time, and it's their idea: they thought of it themselves, no one told them. The planners first conceived of the idea of making a large, curved building here in 1998. I can't conceive of any way of getting there before 5:00. A woman (or a man and a woman?) conceives a baby when she becomes pregnant (starts to carry a tiny baby inside her). The baby was conceived the day we went to Niagara Falls.

conceive

have the idea for He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients This library was well conceived (= think, believe) judge or regard; look upon; judge I think he is very smart I believe her to be very smart I think that he is her boyfriend The racist conceives such people to be inferior become pregnant; undergo conception She cannot conceive My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day

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conceive · verb

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Simple sentences

I can't conceive of Tom doing that.
I can't conceive of living without him.
I can't conceive how I could have made such a mistake.
It is not possible to conceive without perceiving.

Movie subtitles

After all, can you conceive of anybody living in a house like this if they didn't have to?
Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?
This is how I conceive our plan of operations.
She has too much honor to conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves.
Conception is a blessing, but as your daughter may conceive, friend, look to it.
Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!
I can hardly believe how one could conceive and build such a craft and, in a single stroke, harness power beyond the wildest dreams of science.
Well, Mr Wallis, it must be a wonderful feeling to achieve a thing like this. to conceive something absolutely unheard of and carry it through with flying colours.
You cannot possibly conceive the dreadful thing he's proposing to do.
I'm sorry for you and the boy, but I cannot conceive of any verdict except guilty, or guilty but insane.
With your ancient, juvenile minds, you have developed explosives too fast for your minds to conceive what you were doing.
If they could conceive of or dream of another time, perhaps they would be able to enter into it.
Can you possibly conceive it?
The kind of mind that could conceive something so diabolical as to poison a man with his own snuff.
And you conceive it to be part of your mission. to assault and loot the ship of an ambassador to the court?
It makes me conceive of things.
I cannot conceive, sir that in the company of a lady you'd waste a single moment.
I can hardly believe it, how one could conceive and build such a craft.
But I cannot conceive of any verdict except guilty. or guilty but insane.
It is an undeniable fact that in this day and age when we are about to send rockets to the moon we conceive pretty much as we did in the Stone Age.
The enemy could not conceive that anyone would be so foolhardy as to go on fighting with four unprotected guns.
Can you conceive how weary I am of always being misunderstood?
Can you conceive how lonely I am. when there is nothing that doesn't shun me, that doesn't fade as I come near?
I'm the first citizen who would never dare conceive such an awful request.
With your ancient, juvenile minds, you have developed explosives too fast for your minds to conceive what you were doing. You are on the verge of destroying the entire universe.
If they were able to conceive or dream another time, perhaps they would be able to live in it.
Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?
And I told you a million times, baby, I wouldn't conceive with anyone else. - You know that, baby.
How is it possible to appoint as our commander-in-chief a man who can't mount a horse, who goes to sleep at council meetings? His morals are the worst you can conceive.
In a society as well organised as this one seems to be, I cannot conceive of such an oversight going uncorrected.
Can you not conceive?

News and current affairs

We conceive of politics as a mechanism to reconcile enduring conflicts, such as those that exist between freedom and security.
Peace will not quickly be restored to Iraq, and it is hard to conceive of opening up a major new front, when America can hardly manage what it has already undertaken.
No matter how inconsistent such attitudes appear to be, they remain widespread and cannot be overlooked, because they suggest that people here conceive of NATO as a protective umbrella, not something to which they must contribute.
According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 222 million women in developing countries do not want to have children now, but lack the means to ensure that they do not conceive.
I think that when the authorities conceive such strategies, they assume that the outcome will be manageable.
But the lessons that elites learn - and they clearly will want to turn the protests to their electoral advantage - will partly depend on how these movements are described, and how they conceive of themselves.
Yet it is impossible even to conceive of falling incomes bringing about greater justice in the world.
But, for all we know, it is the next fetus that the woman will conceive, not the one she aborted, that will turn out to be the Beethoven or Einstein.
But while any couple would prefer to conceive a child without the intervention of doctors, that option is not available for infertile couples.
Liberals, being people of good will, find it hard to conceive of implacable enemies.
Perhaps only someone who comes from one of the post-Soviet states can conceive of politics in terms of original principles in the manner of Rawls.
We conceive of politics as a mechanism to reconcile enduring conflicts, such as those that exist between freedom and security. Each, indeed, is unsustainable without the other.
This is not merely a matter of semantics; such a change will require the US to re-conceive its role in the world.
The last of the revolutionary generation, President Abdulaziz Buteflika must still conceive a succession that ends his country's civil war.
Are there no limits, or does today's China conceive of itself as a restored Middle Kingdom, to whom the entire world must kowtow?
But the same outcome is assured if the US and Israel conceive the conference solely as a way to isolate and force NPT compliance on Iran and Syria.
Otherwise, it will be difficult even to conceive a common future - without which the economic grievances that fueled the Maghreb's revolutions are likely to continue.
The risk of having an abnormal child through IVF has turned out to be no greater than when parents of a similar age conceive though sexual intercourse.

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